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MES Resource Library

Check out our manufacturing execution system (MES) resources to learn how you can unlock value with MES solutions from Rockwell Automation.
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    • Plex MES (Cloud)
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    • Plex MES for Food & Beverage
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    • FactoryTalk CPGSuite
    • FactoryTalk CPGSuite
    • Plex Quality Management System (Cloud)
    • Plex Quality Management System (Cloud)
    • Plex Enterprise Resource Planning
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    • Plex Asset Performance Management (Cloud)
    • Plex Asset Performance Management (Cloud)
    • Plex Production Monitoring (Cloud)
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An MES is the heartbeat of any manufacturing operation. Explore our resource library to learn more about how our MES solutions can help you manage through volatility, minimize disruption and stay competitive.


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Blogs
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Are you Ready for a Recall?
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Are you Ready for a Recall?

Leverage an MES system to connect your ERP and automation systems for a complete picture of your manufacturing process.

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Digital Transformation in Life Sciences
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Digital Transformation in Life Sciences

3 Do's and Don’ts for Implementing a Productive Digital Environment

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Driving time to value with a smart connected factory
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Driving time to value with a smart connected factory

Identify the value of digital transformation for F&B manufacturing to remain competitive and realise efficiencies across your enterprise

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Small Steps, Big Gains in Asset Performance
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Small Steps, Big Gains in Asset Performance

Analyze maintenance data to identify incremental improvement opportunities that add up to immense value for asset performance.

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A Winning Formula
Evolution of Pharmaceutical MES
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A Winning Formula

PharmaSuite is the Manufacturing Execution System for the Life Sciences industry, addressing issues that will enable the advantages of standardization while giving you flexibility.

Plex Asset Performance Management (APM) Solution Overview
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Plex Asset Performance Management (APM) Solution Overview

Plex APM offers today’s manufacturers a new way of networking machinery together to gain a much deeper understanding of efficiencies and of potential failures, before they happen.

Plex Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Solution Overview
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Plex Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Solution Overview

With Plex MES, the error-prone paper chase ends. Our cloud-based SaaS platform gives you real-time data and connects production, inventory, and quality processes. Automate, track, capture, and analyze data end-to-end. A new era of productivity is here.

Plex Production Monitoring Solution Overview
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Plex Production Monitoring Solution Overview

Plex Production Monitoring provides seamless connectivity to machines on the plant floor, delivering transparent, real time operational KPIs that drive continuous improvements. Connecting the plant floor to systems enables you to digitally track production and provide real-time actionable information. All without the hassle and complexity of proprietary hardware or customized software.

Plex Quality Management System (QMS) Solution Overview
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Plex Quality Management System (QMS) Solution Overview

Plex Quality Management System (QMS) offers manufacturers increased quality visibility and real-time data capture to ensure repeatability, predictability, and compliance management. Plex QMS makes it possible to digitally manage quality with accurate, real-time quality content aligned to industry and product requirements. And you gain increased operational excellence.

The Evolution of Pharmaceutical MES
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The Evolution of Pharmaceutical MES

Advances in modern manufacturing execution systems can help you optimize production, speed time-to-market and ease compliance.

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Digital Transformation with BIC
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Digital Transformation with BIC

Bridging IT and operational technologies, BIC embraces a new era of seamless, integrated manufacturing.

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Plex Helps G&W Products Raise the Bar
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Plex Helps G&W Products Raise the Bar

G&W Products struggled to generate reports in a timely enough fashion to guide its most important decisions. Employees were spending too much time finding the right data and not enough time analyzing it. Find out how Plex helped.

Hatch Stamping Saves Time and Resources with Reporting from Plex
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Hatch Stamping Saves Time and Resources with Reporting from Plex

Hatch Stamping was finding it difficult to achieve efficiency, accuracy and continue to grow with its manual processes and an antiquated technology infrastructure. The company also needed to manage operations both inside and outside the U.S. and bring together information from a variety of disparate systems and databases. With the addition of Plex, they were able to achieve this and more.

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MES for Dummies
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MES for Dummies

Download MES for Dummies to find out how a manufacturing execution system can help you deliver enterprise visibility and achieve production and quality control.

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Smart Manufacturing Software Buyer’s Guide
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Smart Manufacturing Software Buyer’s Guide

Discover how smart manufacturing solutions represent a significant advance over traditional software systems.

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Buyer Experience Report – Rockwell Automation MES Platform
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Buyer Experience Report – Rockwell Automation MES Platform

Guide covering user survey data in an easy to digest evaluation. See where our MES solutions are ranked!

The Total Economic Impact™ Of The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ for Food & Beverage
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The Total Economic Impact™ Of The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ for Food & Beverage

Explore the cost savings and business benefits enabled by the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ for one Food & Beverage manufacturer.

State of Smart Manufacturing Report
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State of Smart Manufacturing Report

Download this free report for the latest research about how leading manufacturers are harnessing smart manufacturing technology and how you can too.

The Total Economic Impact™ Of The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ for Automotive
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The Total Economic Impact™ Of The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ for Automotive

Download The Total Economic Impact™ Of The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform™ report to uncover the cost savings and business benefits of Plex.

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Buckle Up: Quality is Driving Digitalization
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Buckle Up: Quality is Driving Digitalization

As the pressure for quality transparency rises from up and down the value chain, digitalization – automating processes and digitizing communication streams inside and outside the four walls of the plant – is increasingly seen as the way forward. But how do we get there? 

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Cloud MES: Automate, Track, and Scale
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Cloud MES: Automate, Track, and Scale

See why the cloud is the best platform for synchronization of MES, and learn what to look for in best-of-class cloud MES solutions

Five High Impact Use Cases for Improving Industrial Performance
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Five High Impact Use Cases for Improving Industrial Performance

Industrial analytics has a huge role to play in generating insights at the device, equipment, line, plant, and enterprise level. These use cases form a solid foundation for engaging stakeholders, establish a common vision for change, and co-create organization value for positive change.

Forrester Interview: The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Customer Journey
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Forrester Interview: The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform Customer Journey

A Forrester Interview with a Plex Customer about achieving success.

How to design a digital transformation architecture at Life Sciences organizations
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How to design a digital transformation architecture at Life Sciences organizations

Discover why a thoughtfully-designed digital transformation architecture with top-tier interoperability and security capabilities is key for any Life Sciences organization looking to take their business performance to the next level.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Integrate your data with manufacturing intelligence to improve operations and OEE.

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Get started in your smart manufacturing journey

Manufacturing decision makers have traditionally looked to technology to raise efficiency and improve control of business operations. But as manufacturing continues to experience a revolution and a renaissance using industrial digitization, leaders are focusing more on finding the best software solutions to incorporate the benefits of smart manufacturing and manage areas of concern.

This buyer’s guide will explore the benefits of smart manufacturing and help you make a confident and informed decision about solutions that drive results in your operation.

Smart Manufacturing Software Buyer’s Guide
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Smart Manufacturing Software Buyer’s Guide

Discover how smart manufacturing solutions represent a significant advance over traditional software systems.

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Explore MES by Rockwell Automation

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Today's manufacturing execution system (MES) is all about taking control of your production and syncing up the top floor with the plant floor. As the heartbeat of any manufacturing operation, MES is the foundational layer that oversees the production process for transforming raw materials into a finished product, providing real-time production management to drive enterprise-wide compliance, quality, and efficiency. 

Built with security, resilience, sustainability, and productivity in mind, explore how our MES solutions can help you stay competitive while managing through disruption and volatility.


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